Dr. Katie Flaherty joined the Coker staff in 2005. She serves as
Coker's Associate Director of Athletics for Internal Operations.
Flaherty is in charge of NCAA Compliance, as well as the
College’s accreditation liaison officer with the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.

She is a member of the NCAA Division II Committee for
Legislative Relief, overseeing requests by a school that, in cases
when no other waiver process already has authority, seeks relief
from applying a rule when extraordinary or extenuating
circumstances warrant. The Committee’s decisions include
granting or denying such requests, or granting conditional wavers.
It handles appeals for all 302 Division II institutions.

Flaherty earned a Bachelor of Science from Michigan State
University and she has a Ph.D. from Purdue University.